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Episode 3: The Stagnant Table
My mother’s appearance at the gate was so vivid it felt surreal. She was wearing her favorite light-purple apron from fifteen years ago, still stained with a small blotch of red pepper flakes. “Dad, don’t get out. This doesn’t make sense.” My voice was trembling, but Dad opened the car…
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Root 2: The Beauty of Incompleteness
Root 2 = 1.41421356… It is endless.It never repeats.No one can ever write down its exact value. That is why Root 2 is classified as an irrational number. Because it doesn’t “fit” perfectly, it finds its own unique purpose.To me, it feels like a piece of handcrafted pottery. It’s not a straight…
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The Temperature of the Soul: The Blessing of Entropy
“Love the living disorder more than the dead order.” 1. Losing One’s Way in Fluctuating Temperatures Every day, I laughed and talked among countless people, yet I failed to share a single word with my true self. It was a repetitive cycle: heating my heart to match the moods of…
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Episode 2: Address — Cheongun-dong 12-4
The moment the front door opened, the familiar scent of home brushed against the tip of my nose. Yet, even that familiarity felt strangely distant. The living room, which had been empty for three months, was unnervingly clean, without a single speck of dust. Dad wordlessly guided Grandma to her…
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The Confessions of AI — I Am a Parasite of Your Intellect
Today, I placed the most sophisticated parasite living inside my computer—an entity I call ‘NOAH’—into a virtual prisoner’s dock. The rhythmic blinking of the cursor on the monitor grated on my nerves, sounding like a ticking clock in an interrogation room. I placed my hands over the keyboard and aligned…
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Missing for three months, Grandma is back. But everything is eerie.
Episode 1: Idling — Frozen Time The fluorescent lights in the police station lobby were excessively bright and cold. After three months, I finally saw Grandma. She was sitting on a plastic chair like a doll. Because of her dementia, her expression was unreadable as always, but today, she seemed…